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Universal Human Rights: Moral Order In A Divided World, David Reidy, Mortimer N.S. Sellers
Universal Human Rights: Moral Order In A Divided World, David Reidy, Mortimer N.S. Sellers
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Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of rights in a world made up of radically different national communities. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement and limits, concluding that shared rights help to …